Comments on: Eakins: ‘If you play scared in this league, you’re going to get killed’http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2013/11/03/eakins-if-you-play-scared-in-this-league-youre-going-to-get-killed/
ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.comTue, 31 Mar 2015 21:36:31 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: joey4idhttp://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2013/11/03/eakins-if-you-play-scared-in-this-league-youre-going-to-get-killed/comment-page-1/#comment-243501
Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:30:27 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243501How long after that was Therrien fired?
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Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:39:10 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243314Craze… but the SAME things were said in Colorado last year.

Duchene… Stastny… etc… young kids not skating up to their potential… and were TRUE…

But WHY??? See the Avs changes entering into this season and the result.

Lowe and Mac have made POOR choices, just like Sherman, LaCroix Jr. and Sacco.
Seriously – Howson as Sr.VP of Hockey Ops??? Yes, that 5 year stint in Columbus was wildly successful…. SHEESH…

The Oilers have YET to get the right guy(s) in place… including those at the top.

Don’t blow up the team…yet… blow up the method and manner in which they’re choosing Coaches who are failing to recognize how to best USE their talent… via Style.

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Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:28:48 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243311That’s not the argument Duey… the argument is Eakins is showing no better traits nor leadership than his predecessors.

But… since you brought up the point… what do you expect from a young team that has gone through 4,4,4 head coaches??? Who’s responsibility is that crap?

Still a lot of hockey left to play… but look no further than Roy and Colorado to prove my point:
1) Same situation – numerous head coaches, floundering kids
2) Young team that everyone… including the previous HC was blaming… just like you are
3) Regularly finishing near the bottom of the league
4) Changed out GM to Sakic
5) Changed out HC to Roy
6) Same kids wearing the Avs Sweater, right?

Don’t blame the team… ESP a YOUNG team… until they’ve been provided the leadership required to teach and coach them. The Oilers have failed WOEFULLY at that – and Eakins isn’t inspiring ANY confidence in hockey minded observers.

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Mon, 04 Nov 2013 01:45:52 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243201Yeah, as soon as they fired Therrien. If I’m Dallas Eakins I’m not exactly loving that comparison.
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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:22:25 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243163i think sometimes its ok to humiliate young teams. penguins went through it with therien, called them the worst defense in history to the local media. called out their toughness and loyalty to one another. things started looking up after that….
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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:13:44 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243085It’s all about chemistry n ice hockey and there is none on this team. It’s like the saying goes “he played Kurri to his Gretzky”. And at some point you have to come to terms with that and look beyond some of the players draft selection spots and cut ties with them for the betterment of the team. Right now the oilers aren’t even stuck in neutral, the transmissions broken
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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:19:21 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243071This is simply karma. Remember when the Oilers fired Ralph Krueger in the most unprofessional manner in the off season, via Skype, with no warning? I couldn’t be happier for Mactavish and the rest of the good ol’ boy network they have in Edmonton.
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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:46:43 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243063I blame the hockey gods. This is clearly their work.
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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:40:54 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243061Blow up the damn team…it’s clear the core they’re trying to build around isn’t working. They don’t have enough leadership, and they need to change their style. Nugent-Hopkins, Hall, and J. Schultz, should be untouchable…besides them, they need to trade some guys.
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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:16:24 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243056Ya for sure, it’s all Eakins fault! lol! This team has been crap for five years now, and Eakins in the fourth coach in that time frame. All but one lasted only a season, and now you guys want Eakins gone after only 15 games. Too funny!

I think that it’s time to admit that this team needs to make some personnel changes ON THE ICE! They are going to have to trade at least one of their six million dollar men, and acquire some quality defense, a goalie, and some veteran leadership, or they are in for another long season. No coach is going to fix what’s wrong with this team alone!

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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:49:51 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243047“More than a man. More than a goaltender. More than a head coach. He is simply… The Roy.”

I could get used to this.

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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:48:24 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243045Another day, another Dallas-Eakins-criticizes-everyone-but-Dallas-Eakins postgame scrum. Seriously, one day it’s the players not showing enough drive. The next, they’re too scared. When are we allowed to start asking if their rookie NHL coach is in over his head?
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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 15:51:17 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243036Dallas Eakins raises a valid point. Maybe they should have a coach to guide them out that mentality. Maybe that is the role of the coach. Maybe their current coach is failing miserably.
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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 15:41:01 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243034I didn’t see ANY ‘fear’ from the Oilers during the game… IMO Eakins is deflecting responsibility and laying blame solely at the players skates.

That’s a poor approach.

Rather than ‘fear’… what I witnessed last night from the Oilers was uncertainty and hesitation… those are totally different issues and frankly places responsibility BACK on the shoulders of the coaching staff managing a young team.

Yes, players need to execute, but they’re not ‘afraid’… they lack CONFIDENCE… and that is NOT just a product of being young.

Eakens comments sound a lot like Joe Sacco about his previous ‘young’ Avs team… the SAME team that Patrick Roy and his staff have now FILLED with confidence, certainty, and success.

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Sun, 03 Nov 2013 15:36:38 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2302242#comment-243032Eakins needs to stop throwing his players under the bus. It’s ok to provide constructive criticism via the media when your team is not at the bottom of he league. He does nothing to elevate their confidence by going public. Just keep teaching the game. If the Roy and the Avs turned it around so can the Oilers if the environment is right.
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